All posts in February 2022

Piece of advice for today: Don’t buy the first year of the new or better product. The first year of the new boiler, dishwasher or hovercar should be tested by People Other than You.

Not that we haven’t met some nice guys while they fixed the new boiler problem. Did you know there is a “boiler buddy” that will fix short cycling of your boiler? Here’s the blurb:

“Boiler Buddy buffer tanks are designed to be used in heating systems with low-mass boilers, geothermal, chilled water, or low-mass radiation. The Boiler Buddy tank is a factory insulated and jacketed storage tank that adds mass to the system and provides the necessary buffer to prevent short cycling of the heat source. It also serves as a hydraulic decoupler, separating the boiler loop from the system loop and provides an excellent location to eliminate unwanted air. “

Ummm… Should have bought the old-fashioned standard boiler or waited a few years until they worked out the kinks of that new thing in the basement. But kudos to the persons who took advantage of the marketing opportunity that demanded a “boiler buddy.”

Zombie Phrase for the Day: I need glasses but the eye doctors always run away.

Ahhhhhdeeeedd adddusss buhhduhhh ayyyydahdah ahdihhhd uhhhhnnnnndd uhbay.

Ummm… yeah. So true here. Zoom is about the easiest platform I know but Zoom is out of favor in many districts due to privacy concerns.

I’m pretty sure that one reason why parents and students are massing to fight the possible evil of masks is that some issues are too complicated to parse out and manage easily. A proliferation of apps in a world where many parents are not technogeeks, or interested in finding the keys to Geekdom, will be daunting to parents. I suspect some parents have launched war on the Western front because the Eastern front is simply too fraught with weirdness. Too much Kracklezam only intimidates that mom or dad who doesn’t live on their laptop and can’t stand remote meetings.

As I read posts yesterday between people who were looking into homeschooling, I thought maybe Technoweirdness was part of the many parents making homeschooling recommendations, combined with the fact that many parents would love a viable remote option for when people got sick etc. — but instead they get Kracklezam.

We don’t educate parents enough. No one can besnoggle a snork until they learn what a snork is and maybe have some practice besnoggling. Snorks also provide a reason to fight about masks. Sometimes people just feel like they have to fight about something, and masks is a thing we kinda, sorta understand.

At least until the government decides to explain them one more time.

(It took how long to decide that cloth masks were next to useless?)